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I'm in Europe too and at least obvious finance scams turn up on Instagram pretty regularly ("completely safe" investments with astronomical returns if you invest at least ~$10k, etc ...)

Fun :) The point of esoteric languages isn't to be practical, another example of a "strange" language is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#... / https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet

Look at some overall browser/os usage stats and say again that the web isn't relevant on mobile, and look at browser usage stats for desktop and android and claim again that firefox would have a relevant market share on ios if browser choice was free. Those claims seem pretty disconnected from reality.

As absurd as it is, Apple forcing people to use Webkit/Safari is, at the moment, good for the browser landscape. You already have websites that say browsers that aren't chromium aren't supported, if iOS didn't force Safari on people this would be way more common as people would flock to chrome and websites decide it isn't worth it to support other browsers.

I use Firefox on my non-work machines ... in an ideal world, enough people would do that to prevent the "best in Internet Explorer" web of the dark ages, but I'll take getting forced to use Webkit on my phone over that, even if I'd prefer a "true" Firefox.

Big employers (at least the ones I know) aren't regarding work, I guess with smaller ones it maybe is, especially with BYOD?

I think the issue probably isn't uncommon for freelancers/contractors too.

Hobby and personal stuff I think a lot of people mix, I don't use the machine where I do bank/tax/etc stuff for hobby work, but I'm not sure that's common.

We expanded the M1 money supply from $4T to $18T and largely handed it out in a diffuse way.

This is often quoted and either comes out of ignorance or is intentionally misleading. Assuming it's the former, M1 in the US is not a good measure over the time span you are quoting, because there has been an accounting change that significantly expands of what kind of accounts are considered to be in M1.

See the description below the graph of https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL and the notification in https://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/h6.html#2746 (the item from December 17, 2020 in case the anchor doesn't work properly).

If you want to make arguments about monetary supply in that time period, it's better to use M2.

That is a questionable statement, as there were phones with removable batteries and phones without them on the market for quite some time and the phones with removable batteries were simply not successful enough.

even more amusingly, it is a computer program demanding that of another computer program

That is not the only time you use passwords over ssh, e.g. I don't use a password to remote into my desktop from my laptop, but I do use one when using sudo on the desktop.

If the company is big enough (e.g. not using whatsapp is not an option for a lot of people), or if the app comes from a state that can force you to install it by law, yes it can be.

If you own the rights to software, you previously releasing something under the GPL does not mean you have to make derived versions of the thing you released under the GPL available under the GPL too. If you take someone else's code under the terms of the GPL you have to do that, but that does not seem to have happened here.

His speech also came after Europe already realized that in 2014 when the Crimea was annexed [0], and countries didn't want to go too hard with sanctions cause of the dependency. The obvious motive for the speech was a desire to sell US gas to Europe.

[0] For example see a policy brief from the european parliament in 2014: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2014/5364...

That is not how copyright law works. If someone uploads an image as public domain, or code as a BSD license, without having the right to do so, that doesn't give others the right to use those things.

And yet, every time GitHub Copilot comes up, people on HN are in arms about their code being used to train a model.

I obviously read it, otherwise I wouldn't have known which version they are using. They are banking on others, that do just skim the figures and tables, not noticing their usage of outdated baselines.

It does have the option to use a neural network (nnue) in its evaluation, but it is very different from what AlphaZero/Lc0 do. You can choose not to use it, so you still could have a "traditional" evaluation (which would still blow Stockfish 8 out of the water). Also, Stockfish 8 isn't the last version before they merged nnue ...

Comparing against Stockfish 8 in a paper released today and labeling it as "Stockfish" is bordering on being dishonest. The current stockfish version (14) would make AlphaZero look bad, so they don't include it ...

If you have "contractors" in Germany, what you are describing is social insurance fraud. I would be surprised if France doesn't have rules like that.

Uh, it has plenty of methods for more compact encodings? https://github.com/nlohmann/json#binary-formats-bson-cbor-me...

Death rate considerably lags behind infection rates especially at the start of a wave, for multiple reasons (for example, it does take take a while until people get admitted to the hospital, where they are often for multiple weeks before they die, or that in a wave first active people with lots of contacts get infected and only later it spreads to older people who often have fewer contacts). So might be too early to say that.

Excel doesn't alter data without being asked either. What it does do by default is try to change how the data is displayed.

This is easily falsifiable. In a "general" cell, when I enter 0002, it gets changed into 2, not just in display, but in actual content. When I change the cell type to text, it'll still be 2. Only if I enter 0002 after changing the type to text is the content kept.

Similar when I want to have the text 3/17 or SEPT1 in a cell, I have to format it before typing or the data does get altered. If you try setting it to "text" after you typed it, you'll get some number that's not very useful to you.

How is it loose? Both in the colloquial sense and in the sense it is used in machine learning it is fitting. https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2020/12/20/lmmem/ is a post demonstrating it.

And it was released almost a month ago with the CVEs saying "these fixes will be backported to previous branches that are still supported" but releases for those branches haven't happened yet, so if you're on an older version and just want to get the security fixes you have a problem.

Enforce consistent formatting, e.g. with black (https://github.com/psf/black) this gets formatted to [0xF or x in (1, 2, 3)].

Rails used a gem by a different developer, a gem that had its own MIT license. The Rails project and all others using Rails can not be expected that they ought to have known the license is invalid, so usually the GPL does not count for their usage back then.

You can in general never retroactively change a license, so their usage back then was certainly valid.

I would ask a lawyer about that. As it has been explained to me, the original author didn't have the right to distribute it under the MIT license, so they (rails) never had a valid license. It's similar with images, even when you grab it off flickr or another page and it specifies a license you like, that does not mean that whoever posted it there actually had the right to do that, and if they didn't, you can get sued.

USB 3 is also what kills your wifi if things aren't properly done (e.g. https://medium.com/ghostbar/your-usb-3-0-hub-is-killing-your... - and it's not only a mac problem), so it's not just 2.0 but faster.

So you say spending time on this topic is wasted time, and your solution is to spend more time on pushing back?

I extended the deadline for my 2020 tax declaration today (Zurich). I did so by scanning a QR code, entering my email address for the confirmation, and clicking send.

Seemingly "small" investments were enough to strong-arm the NBA and Blizzard into punishing people speaking out for Hong Kong, so it appears it gives them enough.

Desktop motherboard manufacturers definitely do it, and they have FAQs of how to disable it: https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1043788/